Benito Mussolini

April 26, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Columbia University’s antisemitic tradition is alive and well

Nicholas Murray Butler’s spirit lives on—in both the approach of the current appeasing, spineless and incompetent administration, and in the fetid antisemitic beliefs of the student protesters.

March 15, 2023 | Waller R. Newell, Clifford D. May

The Axis of Tyrannies

It will present an enormous challenge to free nations

November 30, 2022 | |

Iran Arrests Niece of Supreme Leader as Death Toll of Protesters Mounts

The niece of Iran’s supreme leader called for the clerical regime’s downfall in a video statement that her brother posted online after Tehran’s security services arrested her last week. Comparing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Hitler and Mussolini, Farideh Moradkhani said in the video that other countries should cut ties with the “murderous and child-killing regime” in Tehran. Her arrest reflects Khamenei’s growing fears of ongoing protests in Iran, which constitute one of the greatest threats to the regime’s survival since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

November 17, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

World Cup 2022: What’s In It For Qatar?

To host soccer’s top international competition, held once every four years, Qatar had to spend $300 billion — the equivalent of 170 percent of its GDP — buying not only a brand new infrastructure...

September 14, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Fascism for dummies

Those using the word should at least know what it means

March 2, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia

Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest

June 5, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Socialism rises from the grave

A one-time believer examines ‘man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion’

November 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Came the revolution

My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...

April 24, 2017 | Michael Ledeen |

Tyrants And Their Hollow States

Frankly,  I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire.  Not a great result for a would-be ...

April 24, 2017 | Michael Ledeen |

Tyrants And Their Hollow States

Frankly,  I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire.  Not a great result for a would-be ...

May 20, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Nobody Knows Anything About Fascism

As I wrote in this space a few weeks ago, Donald Trump is no fascist, but there...

May 12, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Trump’s Secret? Religion

I’ve just finished correcting the first set of galleys from St. Martin’s Press for The Field of Fight, the soon-to-be-released book I had the pleasure of co-authoring with Lt. General...

March 11, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Who’s A Fascist? Not Donald Trump

No, Donald Trump isn’t a fascist. And the efforts of a considerable number of columnists, reporters, and even university professors to make him out to be a second Hitler or Mussolini testif...

October 15, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

The New Axis Of Evil At War In Syria

The Iranian-Russian alliance now operating in Syria must fill Bashar Assad with great hope for his own survival. It has all the trappings of a carefully planned strategic assault on the enemies o...

December 5, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

Crowds or Mobs, Demonstrations or Riots

When is a demonstration a riot? When you disapprove. Crowds demonstrate and mobs riot. Got it? Thus, those big assemblages of protesters in the streets of Hong Kong are crowds for most W...

October 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Italian Exception: Defeating the Anti-Semites

The headlines from Europe are all grim. Synagogues assaulted in France, Jews murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and savagely beaten in the streets of Great Britain and Scandinavia, mobs of...

July 30, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

Courtesy of Tehran and the Whole Gang

As Israel’s UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, said:&...

September 6, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Muddle East

If Congress refuses to support American military action against the Assad regime in Syria, and President Barack Obama declines to strike or strikes meekly, will American power—that marriage...

July 29, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

Whither Egypt? Whence Syria? (Wrong Questions)

July 25th was the 70th anniversary of the fall of Mussolini, voted out of office by the Grand Fascist Council, arrested by order of the king, and imprisoned.  At first, Italy remained in the...

June 3, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

Syria: The Spanish Civil War All Over Again

History may not quite repeat itself, but the war in Syria — invariably, “the Syrian Civil War” — is eerily similar to the “Spanish Civil War” in the mid-1930s....